Bottle-case



.(No Model.)

F. A. DALY.

v BOTTLE CASE. No 527,558. Patented Apr. 7, 1896. jag? i j g -z 11, 74. 0

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICEQ FRANK A. DALY, OF LOlVELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 557,558, dated April 7, 1896. A lication filed December 12, 1894. Serial No. 531,540. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK A. DALY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottle- Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bottle cases or packages for holding and protecting during transportation bottles of glass or similar fragile material, the object of said invention being to provide a light and inexpensive package, consistingof a box or crate containing springs or metallic cushions adapted to hold the bottle out of contact with the unyielding box or crate and at the same time to retain the bottle in said crate.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an isometric perspective view of a bottle-case constructed according to my invention and containing a bottle; Fig. 2, a plan of said case and bottle; Fig. 3, a plan of the case without the bottle; Fig. a, an inside elevation of one of the upper horizontal strips of the crate, showing the end portions of one of the spring-wires attached thereto; Figs. 5 and 6, vertical sections of the crate on the lines 5 5 and 6 6, respectively, in Fig. 3.

The box or crate A is preferably rectangular in horizontal and vertical crosssection and formed of horizontal strips a, secured to vertical corner-posts a and braced on each side by a pair of diagonal strips a secured to said posts a, the bottom of the crate being formed of two horizontal diagonal strips a also secured to posts a, all of said strips be ing of light wood secured together by nails, screws, or other usual means but the case A may be a box with closed sides, although the crate is lighter and in that respect more desirable. e

The bottle B or demijohn is of glass or simi lar fragile material and of well-known form, having a circular bottom 1), vertical sides I), a neck b and shoulders The bottle B is suspended out of direct contact with the box or crate A proper by means of springs 0, preferably formed in connected pairs, each pair consisting of a wire rigidly secured at its upper ends to the inside of the box or crate, as by means of staples D, which embrace the horizontal end portions 0 of said springs O. The wire which forms each pair of springs extends beneath the bottle and is doubled in the middle at c and secured by another staple D to the bottom of the box or crate, the lower part of the wire touching said bottom only at said staple D and each branch of said wire below the bottle having a coil 0 on which the bottom of said bottle B rests, and being bent up at 0 into contact with the side of the bottle at the bottom of the same in such a manner as to hold the lower part of the bottle concentric with the case and considerably above the bottom of said case.

Each branch of the wire of each spring near the top of the case A is provided with a spiral coil 0, arranged radially to said bottle, to center the bottle with the case, and is also provided with a loop 0 arranged bet-ween said coil 0" and the corresponding attaching part c of said wire and bent over the shoulders 19 of the bottle to prevent the bottle from rising off from the lower coils o The bottle may be placed in or removed from the case while holding the loops away from the bottle; but the use of ordinary force will not separate them, as lifting the bottle raises the case.

By the means above described the bottle is retained in the case concentrically therewith, but out of contact with the rigid parts thereof and in such a manner that the bottle may move slightly in any direction when the case is jarred or struck.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of a box or crate and springs connected in pairs and secured to the bottom of said box or crate, and provided with coils, upon which the bottom of said bottle may rest," and with other coils; between the sides of said bottle and said box or crate, near the top of the same, to center said bottle in said box or crate, and with loops which extend above and press upon the shoulders of said bottle, to retain said bottle in said box or crate, the ends of said springs being rigidly secured to said box or. crate, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of a box or crate and springs arranged in pairs therein, each pair of springs being formed of a continuous wire, bent at the middle and secured to the bottom of said box or crate, and provided with coils, upon which the bottom of said bottle may rest, and with other coils, between the sides of said bottle and said box or crate, near the top of the same, to center said bottle in said box or crate, and with loops which extend above and press upon the shoulders of said bottle, to retain said bottle in said box or crate, the ends of said wire being rigidly secured to said box or crate, as and for the purpose specifiec I 3. The combination of a box or crate and springs arranged in pairs therein, each pair of springs being formed of a continuous Wire, bent at the middle and jointed to the bottom of said box or crate, near the middle of said bottom, and provided with coils, upon which the bottom of said bottle may rest, and with FRANK A. DALY.

-iVitnesses:

ALBERT M. MOORE, LILIAN E. OWEN. 

